Monday, March 19, 2007

Swedish landlords avoid letting to immigrants

EU: The indoctrination of political correctness and kumba ya hasn't reached all swedes yet as this is kinda of shocking.

Eight out of ten Swedish landlords systematically avoid letting their properties to tenants with Arabic names. The discrimination is especially widespread in towns outside the country's large cities.

A man with an Arabic name needs to apply to three times as many apartments as a woman with a Swedish name, according to a study presented in Sunday's Dagens Nyheter.

Using three fictitious names - Erik Johansson, Maria Andersson and Mohammed Rashid - researchers at Växjö university applied to 500 vacant apartments which were advertised by both private individuals and companies on the web site Blocket.se.

"Mohammed Rashid" got a positive response from the landlord in 18 percent of cases. But in only 4 percent of cases was he invited to a viewing of the apartment. "Erik Johansson" received a positive response from 41 percent of his applications and was invited to 10 percent of the viewings.

But the woman with the Swedish name had by far the best response from landlords. 53 percent of her applications resulted in a positive response and she was invited to 19 percent of the viewings.

Seriously, they need to take the Swedish woman name out of the survey because that is going to skew the results in any sort of survey. Look at Swedish women and tell me you wouldn't discriminate if you were a landlord, matter of fact there should be an exception and more positive discrimination in Sweden towards Swedish women.